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20VC: Lovable on Hitting $17.5M in ARR in 3 Months | Adding $2.1M ARR Every Week | Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention: Better than ChatGPT | The Story of Europe's Fastest Scaling Company with Anton Osika
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Anton Osika is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable, the fastest growing startup in Europe. With Lovable, you can turn your idea into an app in seconds with just a prompt. After just 3 months, the company has scaled to $17.5M in ARR. They are adding $2M in net new revenue every single week. Even better, Lovable has 85% Day 30 retention rate, making it more retentive than ChatGPT.
In Today's Episode We Discuss:
How a Side Project Turned into a $200M Company
Why Talent is 10x More Valuable Than Experience
How to Use a Waitlist Pre-Launch to 10x Growth
How to Master a Public Launch: $0 - $1M ARR in a Week
Why Raise a Large Seed Round
How Sustainable is Lovable and AI Revenue
What are Lovable's Biggest Threats: Incumbents or Open Source
Raising Series A: Should You Always Take the Money
How to Compete in the US from Europe
Is Europe as F****** as the World Thinks
Building in Europe vs. Silicon Valley
The Future of Foundation Models: Who Wins
Grok vs OpenAI vs Anthropic: Buy and Short
Quickfire Round: Insights and Reflections
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